DAVE: anyone seen terezi aroundROSE: No.ROSE: Why?DAVE: we were gonna do a thingDAVE: but shes not around and not answering my messagesDAVE: on any one of the probably ten thousand computers lying around that they would show up onROSE: A thing?DAVE: yes a thingROSE: I see.DAVE: shut upDAVE: what about you have you seen herKANAYA: NoKANAYA: Have You Seen GamzeeDAVE: are you seriousDAVE: of course notDAVE: i havent seen that guy at all since the first day we got hereDAVE: not onceKANAYA: YeahKANAYA: I KnowDAVE: talk about an elusive juggaloDAVE: probably like the shyest fuckin juggalo of all timeDAVE: im pretty sure only karkats seen himDAVE: dont expect him to rat him out either because of the "morail" junkDAVE: moirail?DAVE: mwah rail...DAVE: alien wordsKANAYA: I Wouldnt Expect Him ToKANAYA: I Wouldnt Even Ask It Would Be Really Bad Form To Ask Him ThatDAVE: yeahDAVE: i mean i bet you think youre imparting some really obscure cultural fact about trollsDAVE: but really if a human said to another humanDAVE: "hey man can you tell me where your best clown friend is hiding so i can go chainsaw him to death"DAVE: just fyi that would probably be bad form tooKANAYA: OkayDAVE: i dunno its been a year already i think hes really intent on hidingDAVE: and hanging on to those dead bodiesDAVE: hes probably scared to death of you at this point anywayDAVE: maybe you should just let it goKANAYA: HmmDAVE: rose back me upROSE: I try to stay out of troll interpersonal politics.DAVE: interpersonalDAVE: waitDAVE: are you saying this is likeDAVE: a spade quadrant thingDAVE: is she trying to be his kismet fishROSE: I'm saying no such thing!DAVE: well if she hates him isnt that what that meansROSE: Dave, don't be a dick. You're embarrassing her.DAVE: haha no im not shes coolDAVE: look shes being cool about itKANAYA: Im Being Cool About ItDAVE: see????KANAYA: Its Not Like ThatKANAYA: I Just Want To Find HimKANAYA: AndKANAYA: At Least Wound Him SomewhatDAVE: yeah see i knew there had to be a perfectly harmless and unerotic explanationROSE: (shh!)KANAYA: NoKANAYA: See Im Explaining This BadlyKANAYA: All Im Saying Is BasicallyKANAYA: JustKANAYA: Fuck That Guy

So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause. Deciding how to refer to the pause is an exercise that I will leave to the reader. Feel free to discuss the matter with friends. Or strangers. Anyone who will listen really. If they start to run away, I strongly recommend you chase them.

Why don't we say that A665 begins on 4/13. That's a fun number that we all can get excited about. I have a lot of catch-up work to do between now and then. Not the least of which is drawing the actual content to be posted. But also a lot of gamedev work. Game production is rolling pretty hot right now. Stuff is being churned out almost faster than I can keep track of. Did I mention? I accidentally started running a game studio a little while ago. Whoops, sorry about that. There are all these people being paid to make things happen, and I have to be like "Yeah, keep doing that stuff, everybody." It's getting pretty easy to lose track of how many people work for What Pumpkin. My last estimate was somewhere between 30 and 1000. The true figure is a very frisky moving target.

A6A6A5, a.k.a. Caliborn's Masterpiece, is actually done. It's probably better to hold off posting it until 4/13, when more content will soon follow aftewards. I am sure pausing on that note for months would mess with your head a lot more than the note we're already pausing on. I sometimes feel I have at least a modest responsibility to manage your sanity. It'll be tough sitting on this content though. Tougher than sitting on all of A664 for the better part of a year. I don't think it is out of line to describe it as the best material this website will ever exhibit. It will be all down hill from there, in every direction. Even up.

Speaking of sanity management, way back when, I was pretty on the fence about posting A664 spaced out over months like I did, vs. all at once. Doing the latter in hindsight probably would have been a fucked up thing to do to the internet though. The GAME OVER fallout alone was a bit much as it was. Including it in tandem with the rest of it? Not sure what to make of that. Let's review the CONTENT CRUSH that would have entailed. Bad Anime -> Game Over -> Sadstuck -> Lowas Quest -> 100 retconned panels of oil -> A bunch of other shit -> Punky Serket -> Fantroll Storytime -> 8 password pages -> The Kiss On Horse Mountain -> and finally -> The Punchline. You know, that's an awful lot of baloney to publish. I think the fell-swoop reaction to all that would have been quite a thing to behold, but also, perhaps an irresponsible thing to do to a hapless fanbase after a year in hibernation. I'm told that in 2015, young people are heavily susceptible to "the feels", and trifling with those forces could be injurious to their future development. Wait, did that just sound like something your grandpa would say? Mother fuck, where did I put my cane. Oh right, I snapped it in half from shaking it at the sky.

I may have been in the process of making a point there, but we're going to have to pick this up another time. The comic isn't going to pause itself!!!

Over the last couple months, I have been surreptitiously collapsing several update horses into single, bigger horses. This means A6A6I4 is going to end a little sooner than previously advertised. Same total page count, but finishing sooner. Please consult the important horse calendar below.

So what happens when A6A6I4 is done? I'm not quite sure yet. I'm still working on everything that comes after that. I've written it mostly, but haven't drawn anything yet. There will almost certainly be another pause, but I'm not sure how long it will be yet. I will let you know after 1/19.